Tex. Gov't Code § 401.062 · Subchapter D. GOVERNOR'S EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS
CERTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The governor may determine that an emergency exists requiring the use of appropriations made under Section 401.061.
(b) A governor who makes a determination under this section shall certify to the comptroller the facts constituting the emergency and the reasons why the facts constitute an emergency.
(c) The defense of the nation and this state and the safety and economic prosperity of the people of this state require the governor, in making a determination to use or authorize the use of an appropriation made under Section 401.061, to give preference to impacted regions of significant new naval military facilities, as those terms are defined by Section 4, Article 1, National Defense Impacted Region Assistance Act of 1985 (Article 689a-4d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 15, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.401.htm
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